ericmcer

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by ericmcer 3y ago
Some do a flat fee, others do a weight based fee (which is logical for offsetting road repair costs), CA does a value based fee. Value based is definitely the option to get as much money as possible out of citizens.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It does feel like another attempt to milk the middle class by classifying them as "rich". We should stop treating productive people like doctors, trades people, engineers, small business owners, etc. who have worked their way into
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Beyond walkable just removing the constant noise and air pollution would have an instant positive affect on mental health.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
the top one is... kinda crazy, the second one is very-plausible: `if (name && age) {saveUser()}`.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Hard disagree, unless you pursue a super niche position doing a specific technical task you are going to have to become really really good at reading docs and learning how to cobble stuff together out of cloud services and JS libraries. Far
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I was fighting with someone about this exact concept for hours. They kept exclaiming how amazing it was that we (as specific people) were born and how infinitesimal the odds were.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Uhh if you are a senior PM and you want to make >100k you should... apply to senior PM roles that pay >100k? There are a ton out there, just spoof up your resume and start applying. High level PMs at FAANG make at least 200k base + a
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Mexican food seems pretty subjective to me at this point. You probably just associate LA style with “good”. I like tiny $5 artisan tacos sometimes, a giant sloppy burrito from a food truck sometimes, I even get in the mood for chipotle occa
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Have you been in an adult relationship? It is a huge challenge and every little aspect of both individuals will get dragged up and dealt with. Tools for maintaining intimacy and fending off resentment are crucial to any kind of longevity. I
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It doesn't seem like a bad way to go. If the company is stable enough and you can cash in your engineers salary for 25 years and have crazy good job security. Seems better than being a 50 year old trying to wow a 28 year old interviewe
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Seriously, the google generative AI actively suggests completely inaccurate things. It has no ability to say: "I don't know", which seems like a huge failing. I just asked "what does the JS ** operator do" and it ma
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The exception to that is highly social games. I did genuinely feel a sense of accomplishment when me and 4 friends would crush another team in league of legends. Or the old World of Warcraft raids involved coordinating 40 people and felt me
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Alcohol is bad but lets not pretend that legal booze is the same as allowing something like Oxycontin. If they sold Oxy in grocery stores the country would probably fall to pieces in a few years.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Good point. You can expand this to every issue facing society, view it through the lens of a politician trying to grab as many votes as possible and our current state makes sense.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Yeah… doctors recommend supplementing vitamin D if you don’t get much sun. This almost feels comedic.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Got a decent position after ~4 months of looking. ~120 applications, ~10 interviews. It was nuts, my resume and skillset have never been stronger but this was my hardest search by a huge margin. Referrals were not working, bulk applications
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The one of these I don't hate was at Carrd. More of a toggleable full screen overlay with arrows and notes pointing to all relevant info. https://carrd.co/build/6881ccd20d634611
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by ericmcer 3y ago
You just changed my text messaging efficiency
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Usually feels like a crutch for bad design, but some products just have a certain level of complexity
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It does feel kinda overwhelming. You really need to run to stay in place, and it is more and more about setting up a brittle chain of config files than having deep knowledge of a single languages best practices.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Neither is assuming it is going to come tumbling down all of a sudden. Bears have lost out over and over barring a handful of lucky and well timed bets. So far the economy growing during your lifespan has been the correct assumption.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It’s identical to cooking websites. Take the actual ~100 words of relevant info and stretch it into a 10000 word article with 20 ads on it
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Why did they lump athletes in with those other three groups. Athletics is the ultimate meritocracy. If athletes are a significant portion of that 43% it dilutes the whole argument. If 10% were alumni/donors/faculty it would still
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by ericmcer 3y ago
What if making hollow grand gestures is the process, with reelection and career progression as the end goal.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
They are complaining because they have to live where they work? What a hardship that no one else faces…
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Even in the biggest cities if you got 15-20m outside the downtown you were totally out of luck pre-Uber. I have many memories of "calling a cab" in south San Francisco on a friday night and pretty much being laughed at. Uber/
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Things like this are so nit picky and nuanced it really isn’t worth caring about unless you are already doing everything else right. People ignore low hanging fruit in their quest for health, like analyzing vegetable oils is pointless when
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It can be pretty stifling on giant teams to make any actual change. Sure it sounds romantic to sit down with a cup of coffee and write some amazing code that makes things better. The reality is writing documents, hunting down code owners an
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by ericmcer 3y ago
60% of Americans get 20% of their daily calories from added sugar. 4 cans of soda a day would be a huge cutback for many people.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Just make it a choice, immortality or have children.

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